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Self-Paced Learning Festival: 09 January - 30 January 2026

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Published on ‎12-09-2025 03:56 AM by Databricks Employee | Updated on ‎01-02-2026 02:50 AM

🚀 Grow Your Skills and Earn Rewards! 🚀
 📅 Mark your calendar: January 09 – January 30, 2026

🎉 Join us for a three-week event dedicated to learning, upskilling, and advancing your career in data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI. Whether you’re new to the field or aiming to deepen your knowledge, this is a great opportunity to invest in your professional development alongside a global community.

🎟️ Finish all of the modules listed within at least one of the self-paced learning pathways below within Customer Academy during the event window to receive:
 ✨ 50% discount on any Databricks Certification
 ✨ 20% discount on a yearly Databricks Academy Labs subscription

💬 All Incentives will be distributed to the eligible participants on 06 February 2026, after the event has concluded. These incentives will be sent to the email associated with your Customer Academy account.

⚠️ Note: Please ensure every component of the course is marked as completed (including any course introduction sections) during the eligibility window to confirm your learning pathway is properly recorded and to qualify for the incentives.

Start exploring our learning pathways below!

LEARNING PATHWAY

CUSTOMER ACADEMY ENROLLMENT LINKS

LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Data Engineer Learning Plan
  1. Data Ingestion with Lakeflow Connect
  2. Deploy Workloads with Lakeflow Jobs
  3. Build Data Pipelines with Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines
  4. DevOps Essentials for Data Engineering

LEARNING PATHWAY 2: PROFESSIONAL DATA ENGINEERING

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Data Engineer Learning Plan
  1. Databricks Streaming and Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines
  2. Databricks Data Privacy
  3. Databricks Performance Optimisation
  4. Automated Deployment with Databricks Asset Bundles

LEARNING PATHWAY 3: DATA ANALYSTS

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete both modules from the Data Analyst Learning Plan
  1. AI/BI for Data Analysts
  2. SQL Analytics on Databricks

LEARNING PATHWAY 4: ASSOCIATE ML PRACTITIONERS

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Machine Learning Practitioner Learning Plan
  1. Data Preparation for Machine Learning
  2. Machine Learning Model Development
  3. Machine Learning Model Deployment
  4. Machine Learning Operations

LEARNING PATHWAY 5: PROFESSIONAL ML PRACTITIONERS

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA

Please complete both modules from the Machine Learning Practitioner Learning Plan
  1. Advanced Machine Learning Operations
  2. Machine Learning at Scale

LEARNING PATHWAY 6:  GENERATIVE AI ENGINEERING

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Generative AI Engineering Learning Plan
  1. Generative AI Solution Development
  2. Generative AI Application Development
  3. Generative AI Application Evaluation and Governance 
  4. Generative AI Application Deployment and Monitoring

LEARNING PATHWAY 7:  APACHE SPARK DEVELOPER

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Apache Spark™ Developer Learning Plan
  1. Introduction to Apache Spark™
  2. Developing Applications with Apache Spark™
  3. Stream Processing and Analytics with Apache Spark™
  4. Monitoring and Optimizing Apache Spark™ Workloads on Databricks

LEARNING PATHWAY 8:  DATA WAREHOUSING PRACTITIONER

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 3 modules from the Data Warehousing Practitioner Learning Plan
  1. Data Warehousing with Databricks
  2. SQL Programming and Procedural Logic in Databricks
  3. Data Modelling Strategies

Happy learning! 📚🎓🧑‍💻🧑‍

#Databricks #MachineLearning #DataEngineering #AI #GenerativeAI #DataAnalysis #Upskill #Certification #TechCareers #LearningFestival #DataScience #AICommunity #DatabricksAcademy #DataSkills #AITraining #LearntoEarn



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Starts:
Fri, Jan 9, 2026 04:00 AM PST
Ends:
Sat, Jan 31, 2026 04:00 AM PST
309 Comments
zend
New Contributor
In response to zend
Sunday

found the response, in one of the comments "As of now there isn’t one I think. But if you still want to do the code then they walk through whole code in demos so I think one can do it by themself after code walk through.
But there is another limitation you won’t be able to access dataset used in those labs and demos. "

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to zend
Monday

The labs are not available through our self-paced learning pathways. Labs can instead be accessed through a Databricks Academy Labs subscription, and we'll be providing a 20% discount code to all participants within this event.

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Neilb92
New Contributor
Sunday

How do I get the 20% discount on the yearly Databricks Academy Labs subscription? I am trying to purchase it but I don't have a code for the discount.

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Neilb92
Monday

You need to complete one of the self-paced learning pathways during this event (i.e. before January 30) and we will then distribute you with this and a 50% discount code on any databricks certification on February 06.

NitinPTakalkar
Visitor II
In response to Neilb92
yesterday

Don't you have time to read responses from Jim?

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Singkios
Visitor II
Sunday

Can i still join this event please!?

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Singkios
Monday

Yes, please feel free to register for any of the self paced courses via the links in the original post.

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NitinPTakalkar
Visitor II
In response to Jim_Anderson
Monday

Hi Jim.

How are you?

If I complete following (In progress)

PROFESSIONAL DATA ENGINEERING
PROFESSIONAL ML PRACTITIONERS
GENERATIVE AI ENGINEERING
DATA WAREHOUSING PRACTITIONER

How many Vouchers / Coupons you will be given? What is the cost of each title / exam after discount? This will help me to plan my finance (self-funding).

Best Regards,

Nitin

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Neilb92
New Contributor
In response to NitinPTakalkar
Monday

Dude. Don't you have the time to go through previous comments? It's already mentioned that only 1 voucher will be given no matter how many courses you complete. 

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Psingh5
Visitor II
Sunday
 
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Psingh5
Visitor II
In response to Psingh5
Sunday

Can I still join

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to Psingh5
Monday

Yes, please feel free to register for any of the self paced courses via the links in the original post. 🙂

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singhdevish
Visitor II
Sunday

How can i join? Can you please assist me?

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to singhdevish
Monday

You can join via the hyperlinks within the original post - these are direct enrolment links to the associated courses inside Databricks Customer Academy 🙂 

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Sumit_7
Valued Contributor III
Sunday

Replying to all in one @singhdevish @Psingh5 @Singkios @Neilb92 @AstonL831 @arish98 @divyashah99 @phanvy5403 @LinhPham @felipe_ribeiro
Pointers for the Learning Festival Jan 09 - 20, 2026:
1. Timeline - Start January 09, 2026 and Ends January 20, 2026
2. One account - One coupon/voucher with a given timeframe to avail (Will be provided after the event ends, late January)
3. Anyone can join, no registration - just start with one of the pathway and complete all the labs in each given section. Even if started early, you may complete the remaining in the given interval.
4. For any technical issue, raise a ticket. Better to create a Free Edition account for your learning, it's packed with almost everything available in the Partner/Paid account.

NitinPTakalkar
Visitor II
In response to Sumit_7
Monday

How many voucher / coupons will be given?

Here if I complete all the following

PROFESSIONAL DATA ENGINEERING
PROFESSIONAL ML PRACTITIONERS
GENERATIVE AI ENGINEERING
DATA WAREHOUSING PRACTITIONER

 

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rahul_1711
New Contributor II
Sunday

Hi @Jim_Anderson , I have completed the course for DATA WAREHOUSING PRACTITIONER.

Hope to get the voucher soon! Thanks!

#Databricks

RAHUL SHAH
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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to rahul_1711
Monday

Thanks for participating! I hope you enjoyed the course.

We'll be distributing all incentives on February 06, so keep a look out for an email in your inbox 🙂 

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shubhamdg
Visitor II
Sunday

till when this coupon is available, like can i schedule an exam in March when booking in fabric? 

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Jim_Anderson
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee
In response to shubhamdg
Monday

Please leverage the coupons by 02 May 2026.